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The cases are grouped according to ages in Table II. (Appendix).
With one exception they were removed to hospital for treatment. None
of the cases appeared to be connected and nothing definite was ascertained as to the
source of infection in any of them. In three or four instances it is probable that
the patients were infected without the Borough. Oysters had been consumed in
two instances and fried fish in several. In one case the patient was a carpenter
who had been engaged on putting up wooden huts for troops on Salisbury Plain,
and there is little doubt that he contracted the disease whilst working there.
In another the patient had been hopping near Maidstone and seems to have
obtained water for drinking purposes from streams in the neighbourhood where
he was employed.
The cases certified in the Metropolis numbered 793 as compared with 758 in
1913, 702 in 1912, .1,022 in 1911, 1,298 in 1910, 1,049 in 1909, 1,350 in 1908, 1,396
in 1907 and 1,608 in 1906.
The attack-rate per 1,000 population was the same as that for Shoreditch.
The deaths numbered 117 as compared with 111 in 1913, 117 in 1912, 141 in
191J, 196 in 1910, 146 in 1909 and 225 in 1908. The death-rate for 1914
was 0'03 per 1,000 inhabitants.
ERYSIPELAS.
The cases certified to be erysipelas numbered 197 as compared with 151 in
1913, 149 in 1912, 159 in 1911, 127 in 1910, 143 in 1909, 124 in 1908, 133 in 190/
and 144 in 1906.